The Upton Hall Examination comprises of two shut NFER tests in Verbal Reasoning. Each paper is coordinated to keep going for 50 minutes.

There is a refreshment break between the papers, both of which are gone up against a similar morning.

The papers are sent offsite for stamping and an age-weighted remittance is made.

The test scores are then included and those young ladies who accomplish at least 236 are considered to have achieved the required standard.

The consequences of the test will be sent to guardians no later than October.

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Sample Test Question

Section A: Comprehension

The following is an extract from Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. The soldiers are sitting around, bored, when suddenly the Germans attack them with deadly gas shells ……….

1) I am writing to Mother – I haven’t written for a while and am feeling guilty
about it. My pencil keeps breaking and I am sharpening it again.
Everyone else is lying asleep in the sun or is sitting about smoking and
chatting. Nipper Martin is cleaning his rifle again. He’s always very
particular about that.

2) “Gas! Gas!”

3) The cry goes up and is echoed all along the trench. For a moment we are
frozen with panic. We have trained for this time and again, but
nonetheless we fumble clumsily, feverishly with our gas masks.

4 “Fix bayonets!” Hanley’s yelling while we’re still trying frantically to pull on
our gas masks. We grab our rifles and fix bayonets. We’re on the firestep
looking out into no-man’s-land, and we see it rolling towards us, this
dreaded killer cloud we have heard so much about but have never seen it
for ourselves until now. Its deadly tendrils are searching ahead, feeling
their way forward in long yellow wisps, scenting me, searching for me.
Then finding me out, the gas turns and drifts straight for me. I’m shouting
inside my gas mask. “Christ! Christ!” Still the gas comes on, wafting over
our wire, through our wire, swallowing everything in its path.

5) I hear again in my head the instructor’s voice, see him shouting at me
through his mask when we went out on our last exercise. “You’re
panicking in there, Peaceful. A gas mask is like God, son. It’ll work
miracles for you, but you’ve got to believe in it.” But I don’t believe in it! I
don’t believe in miracles.

6) The gas is only feet away now. In a moment it will be on me, around me,
in me. I crouch down hiding my face between my knees, hands over my
helmet, praying it will float over my head, over the top of the trench and
seek out someone else. But it does not. It’s all around me. I tell myself I
will not breathe, I must not breathe. Through a yellow mist I see the
trench filling up with it. It drifts into the dugouts, snaking into every nook
and cranny, looking for me. It wants to seek us all out, to kill us all, every
one of us. Still I do not breathe. I see men running, staggering, falling. I
hear Pete shouting out for me. Then he’s grabbing me and we run. I have
to breathe now. I can’t run without breathing. Half blinded by my mask I
trip and fall, crashing my head against the trench wall, knocking myself
half-senseless. My gas mask has come off. I pull it down, but I have
breathed in and know already it’s too late. My eyes are stinging. My lungs
are burning. I am coughing, retching, choking. I don’t care where I’m
running so long as it is away from the gas.

7) At last I’m in the reserve trench and it is clear of gas. I’m out of it. I
wrench off my mask, gasping for good air. Then I am on my hands and
knees vomiting violently. When at last the worst is over I look up through
blurred and weeping eyes. A Hun in a gas mask is standing over me, his
rifle aimed at my head. I have no rifle. It is the end. I brace myself, but
he does not fire. He lowers his rifle slowly. “Go boy,” he says, waving me
away with his rifle. “Go. Tommy, go.”

Unfamiliar words:
Firestep – a narrow ledge that allowed the soldiers to see over the trench.
Fritz/Hun – British name for the German soldiers.
Tommy – German name for the British soldiers.

Section A Comprehension Questions (20 marks)

After you have read the extract answer the questions below, In Complete
Sentences.
The figure in brackets shows the number of marks for that question.

1. In paragraph 1, how do you know everyone is relaxed? [1 mark]

2. Why are the words, “Gas! Gas!” written as a separate paragraph? [1 mark]

3. From paragraph 3, explain in your own words the meaning of:
a) frozen with panic
b) feverishly [4 marks]

4. In paragraph 4, how does the narrator suggest the following characteristics of the gas:
a) it is directly attacking him personally;
b) it is inescapable;
c) it is greedy [3 marks]

5. How do you know he has lost his faith (in paragraph 5)? [1 mark]

6. Explain the meaning of these expressions in paragraph 6. [4 marks]
a) Snaking into every nook and cranny;
b) Know already it’s too late.

7. Why do you think the German soldier lets him go at the end? [1 mark]

8. Re-read paragraph 6: how does the author convey the horror of war in this paragraph?
Quote from the text to support your ideas. [5 marks]